Lumen Technologies, Inc. ( NYSE: LUMN ) 2nd Annual UBS Women in Tech Summit Conference Call June 11, 2024 12:40 PM ET Company Participants Kate Johnson - President and Chief Executive Officer Conference Call Participants Batya Levi - UBS Batya Levi Great. Thanks, everyone, for joining.
I'm Batya Levi from the Communications Team at UBS and our next speaker is Kate Johnson, President and CEO of Lumen. Kate joined Lumen about 18 months ago and she's had a long career in the tech world, including Red Hat, GE, Oracle and more recently, President of Microsoft. And before that, we were actually colleagues at UBS about 20 years ago.
Kate Johnson I didn't know it, but we were. Batya Levi Yes. Kate Johnson Yeah.
Batya Levi That's good. So very excited to have you here. Women in Tech Conference is a unique conference that Taylor put together from our software team, bringing women in finance that are investing in tech companies with women executives in the technology world.
So thank you so much for joining us, Kate. Kate Johnson Thank you for having me. Question-and-Answer Session Q - Batya Levi I just wanted to start maybe your background and how you ended up in tech and you've had a long career here and why did you stay in tech? Kate Johnson So, yes, I studied electrical engineering.
I always loved math, science, physics, and I wanted to be an engineer or so I thought. I went into -- I got a job at Bell Labs and I was there for maybe like 11 minutes before I realized I was a terrible .